Differential control system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeRenault Trucks
InventorsFrançois Longueville, Philippe Crave
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Abstract
A differential control system for a motor vehicle such as a truck including at least one differential includes at least one differential lock which is able to operate the differential into at least a locked or an unlocked state, a controller that controls the differential lock, a manually operable control member freely rotating bidirectionally around at least one axis, an encoder connected to the control member to convert a rotation of the control member into a signal fed to the controller which controls the differential lock in order to operate the differential into a locked or an unlocked state.
Claims20
A differential control system for a motor vehicle having driving wheels, drive shafts to transmit driving power from the motor to the driving wheels and at least one differential to interconnect drive shafts, the differential control system comprising
- at least one differential lock which is able to operate the differential into at least a locked or an unlocked state,
- a controller that controls the differential lock,
- a manually operable control member freely rotating bidirectionally around at least one axis,
- an encoder connected to the control member to convert a rotation of the control member into a signal fed to the controller which controls the differential lock in order to operate the differential into a locked or an unlocked state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.